PG-1: EF-B
PRACTICE KEEPING FINGERS STRAIGHT

(Especially at the throat position)

If good cueing is an art, it is also a craft which can be learned. One
doesn't need to have pretty hands to cue with precision and grace. To the
hearing impaired, "Clear is beautiful!" When learning the basics, some cuers
take so literally the suggestion to touch the mouth, chin, and throat
positions that they sometimes fall into the trap of bending the fingers in toward the throat rather than keeping the hand flat and parallel to the viewer. This
finger-bending can be confusing to the deaf child -- especially at distances
greater than a few feet away.

Watch yourself in a mirror or ask someone to monitor you while you cue these
words with a flat hand (no curved fingers showing, please). The fingers are
most apt to bend toward the throat, so there will be many of these throat
positions for careful checking.

Check to see that the cue fingers are straight and flat for this systematic
review of all handshapes at the throat:

And try these sentences for carry-over of skills:

"You should read a good book every day."
"Pac-Man requires considerable skill to play."
"We took a dip in that brook."
"Jim should bandage his foot."
"Butch tramped through brambles and scratched his hand."
"Daddy and Sam are miles away by now."